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  1. Major NYC Hospital Plans To Downsize

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    Coming so soon after the loss of Saint Vincent's many dug in their heels and said "no, not this time" when LICH announced a proposal similar to what SV's did at first; a partnership with a large real...

  2. Major NYC Hospital Plans To Downsize

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    Highly doubt BI is going the way of Saint Vincent's. However that huge campus and barn of a building are another matter. \ Rightly (or not) Mount Sinai is looking at the nature of healthcare in NYC...

  3. Fired from first job..."not eligible for re-hire"

    DoGoodThenGo replied to run.for.the.roses's topic in General Nursing

    Don't have time to read through all the posts so will just wing this one.... It isn't just healthcare/hospitals, but pretty much standard procedure for all sorts of employers/industries; when one is...

  4. Major NYC Hospital Plans To Downsize

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    Quite honestly it is difficult to get a straight answer as to what is going on. The whole story started when nurses "leaked" an alleged plot by the new owners of Beth Israel (Mount Sinai) hospital...

  5. Medical errors the 3rd leading cause of death??

    DoGoodThenGo replied to ShaneTeam's topic in Nursing News

    From WSJ opinion article published on 18 May 2016 entitled "How To Make Hospitals Less Deadly" Item: 700,000 patients become infected each year in hospitals, 75,000 of them die as a result. Item: Bed...

  6. Patient Catches Fire During Surgery At NYU Medical Center

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in Nursing News

    State investigators slammed NYU Langone Medical Center for lapses in safety procedures and communications that resulted in an operating-room fire while a patient was undergoing surgery, The Post has...

  7. Can I reset my gpa if I never went to a community college before?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Nursing pursuit's topic in New York Nursing

    Depends on several factors including the program you are applying. Hunter-Bellevue nursing for instance IIRC does *NOT* accept repeat courses in the pre-nursing sequence. So if you took A&P I and...

  8. Can I reset my gpa if I never went to a community college before?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Nursing pursuit's topic in New York Nursing

    Acceptance to any college/school will vary but in general a cumulative GPA is just that; an average of all previous post high school work completed. For undergraduate purposes (have not been awarded...

  9. 10 yrs OF NURSING EXPERIENCE - CANT FIND A JOB

    DoGoodThenGo replied to adangerousbeauty's topic in New York Nursing

    It is a combination of many things... Several hospitals and nursing homes have closed in the past several years (Saint Vincent's, Long Island College Hospital, etc...) throwing hundreds of...

  10. 10 yrs OF NURSING EXPERIENCE - CANT FIND A JOB

    DoGoodThenGo replied to adangerousbeauty's topic in New York Nursing

    Isn't just a preference (if any) for younger or "new" nurses. There are quite a few seasoned nurses in NYC pulling major overtime. They do their three 12's at one place then go on and do one or more...

  11. Can you sit for the LPN exam during an ASN program?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Pm2013's topic in General Nursing

    Been decades since NYS ceased allowing RN students to site for the LPN boards. IIRC the reason given was that RN programs had not covered the required material in certain subjects (geriatrics was...

  12. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    DoGoodThenGo replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    BP machines/cuffs were wheeled from room to room/patient to patient and no one gave it a second thought. If you had to do TPR's for an entire ward you started at one end and went round pushing or...

  13. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    DoGoodThenGo replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to go with fictionalized sources for nursing in the USA put down Cherry Ames (pulp fiction) novels and watch some good old television! The television series Trapper John, M.D. which ran...

  14. Reasons to lose nursing license?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    Cannot speak for anywhere else but in NYS nurses can and have lost or *ahem* surrendered their licenses on grounds of moral unfitness. This is a recent example: Nurse surrenders license after taking...

  15. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    DoGoodThenGo replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    Oh and the other unit that by the 1980's had begun to ditch caps and whites was peds for pretty much the same reasons as psych. It was felt the sight of a nurse in whites (with or without a cap) was...

  16. What was it like to be a nurse in the 1980s

    DoGoodThenGo replied to fatrabbit's topic in General Nursing

    Am going to go out on a limb and assume you meant caps not "capes". By the 1980's at least here in NYC most hospital floor/unit nurses no longer were required to wear caps. This varied by facility and...

  17. my 3 choices are queensborough CC Laguardia CC and Bronx CC .

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Nystudent24's topic in New York Nursing

    Being removed for failure to meet academic standards is common enough to all nursing programs public and private. Some CUNY programs may have a higher number of such dismissals than others, but still....

  18. nursing schools in nyc

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Tutifruti26's topic in School, College Programs

    Affordable? CUNY or SUNY programs Mixed reviews? Keep in mind everyone at one time or another has an axe to grind. That being said you have to use some common sense analytical skills and read into...

  19. Minimum wage push to $15/hr. Will it help or harm UAPs Overall?

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in General Nursing

    California did it, and New York state just followed; raising minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour. However am wondering what the response will be from healthcare employers in these two largest...

  20. Getting into NYU ABSN with lower gpa than average accepted student

    DoGoodThenGo replied to macetheace04's topic in New York Nursing

    Point taken... For that kind of money someone better pick up the phone/answer my emails and or otherwise be there when I need them.... *LOL* That tuition still boggles my mind. It about or even more...

  21. Minimum wage push to $15/hr. Will it help or harm UAPs Overall?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Am wondering if NY hospitals and other facilities will respond to the minimum wage hike by bringing back LPNs and going with "all nurse" care models. At the low end of local wages LPNs are about there...

  22. Getting into NYU ABSN with lower gpa than average accepted student

    DoGoodThenGo replied to macetheace04's topic in New York Nursing

    Even at half of 433 (216) that is one big class! *LOL* Assuming a small percentage didn't complete we're talking about 220 students give or take. How does NYU manage such huge classes and still give...

  23. LPNs? What do they do? Where can they work? Difference between LPN vs RN?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to TheCommuter's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    With all this push for making $15/hr. the new minimum wage (here in NY it could happen any day now), am wondering if acute care and other settings where LPs were pushed out will be brought back in...

  24. Getting into NYU ABSN with lower gpa than average accepted student

    DoGoodThenGo replied to macetheace04's topic in New York Nursing

    Quoted numbers came from NYS website listing NCLEX results: http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/nurse/nurseprogs-nclexrn2013-17.htm For the last two years (2014 and 2013 respectively) the following are...

  25. Getting into NYU ABSN with lower gpa than average accepted student

    DoGoodThenGo replied to macetheace04's topic in New York Nursing

    Am going to say this as delicately as possible.... Right now every nursing program in New York has vastly more applicants than space in particular everyone's moderate cost first choice; the CUNY...